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In the Umineko fighting game and several fanarts I've seen Eva-Beatrice seems to have a thing with spiders, I've never seen any thing like this in the anime, Is it something in the Visual novels??

Spoiler for EP3 (episodes 15 & 18):

Yes, in the VN, where Eva-Beatrice let out huge amounts of red text in relation to Nanjo's murder in EP3, she formed a web of red truth, which was sadly omitted. Should have been in episode 18.The spider thing might also have something to do with Eva changing Rosa to a butterfly which got eaten by a spider. Which should have been in episode 15.

Spoiler for EP6 Dawn of the golden witch:

In EP6 Eva-Beatrice also uses a red web to catch and throw George around in the manner of Eva's Meta Super and some others in the fighting game.

since this is the main Q & A thread I hope no-one minds its not really about the anime... but what are some recommendations for other good mysteries? I'm listening to a BBC Sherlock Holmes radio drama, which is entertaining, but not too mysterious... I'm also thinking of getting "And then there were none" since this is one of the main related works, but in the end of that do they ever find out who U.N.Owen was, or was it left open for people to speculate?

...And here I venture to think there is a limitation about Mr. Chesterton's Father Brown stories. He nearly always tries to put us off the scent by suggesting that the crime must have been done by magic; and we know that he is too good a sportsman to fall back upon such a solution.

Is the Father Brown magic like Uminekos "magic", or more like Scooby Doo's "magic"?

Yes, in the VN, where Eva-Beatrice let out huge amounts of red text in relation to Nanjo's murder in EP3, she formed a web of red truth, which was sadly omitted. Should have been in episode 18.The spider thing might also have something to do with Eva changing Rosa to a butterfly which got eaten by a spider. Which should have been in episode 15.

Spoiler for EP6 Dawn of the golden witch:

In EP6 Eva-Beatrice also uses a red web to catch and throw George around in the manner of Eva's Meta Super and some others in the fighting game.

I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but... How exactly did Battler's sin made peole die, and why is it the root of everything?
His sin is the thing that happened with Shanon right?, 6 years go he promised to take her away from the island, and it seems Beatrice took Shanon's love for Battler? So this means they meet before the anime storyline?

_The Three Coffins_ and _The Nine Wrong Answers_ by John Dickson Carr.

Three Coffins has, IMO, red text done right; right at the beginning, the author states that several witnesses are not deliberately lying, but are describing everything as they saw it. It also has two solid impossible crimes. (In the first, one of those witnesses testifies that he saw the victim let a masked man into his room. The room's one door was under his continuous observation from that moment until they broke in. When they did enter, the victim was lying on the ground with a close-range gunshot wound to the chest. The window was open, but outside was untouched snow as far as the eye could see. In the second crime, three such witnesses testified that they heard a voice shout "The second bullet is for you.", followed by a gunshot. When they turned around, they found the second victim with a close-range gunshot wound, with only his own footprints in the snow; a gun with two bullets fired, matching the two bullets in the victims, was also nearby. The first victim regained consciousness the next day, managing to say "How did he get out of that room?" before expiring.)

_The Nine Wrong Answers_ managed to pull off a good action story, while still managing to answer the mysteries it posed. The footnotes pulled off red text / blue text right.

I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but... How exactly did Battler's sin made peole die, and why is it the root of everything?
His sin is the thing that happened with Shanon right?, 6 years go he promised to take her away from the island, and it seems Beatrice took Shanon's love for Battler? So this means they meet before the anime storyline?

Thanks!

Spoiler for The sin:

You have no idea how on the mark you are. The question is this: how is it possible for Beatrice to love someone Shannon had loved?

I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but... How exactly did Battler's sin made peole die, and why is it the root of everything?
His sin is the thing that happened with Shanon right?, 6 years go he promised to take her away from the island, and it seems Beatrice took Shanon's love for Battler? So this means they meet before the anime storyline?

Thanks!

Spoiler for EP7 Requiem of the Golden Witch:

Because the witch loved Battler, by means of her magic, a certain environment came into existence on the day of the conference. That environment became the catalyst for everyone's deaths.

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"Something has fallen on us that falls very seldom on men; perhaps the worst thing that can fall on them. We have found the truth; and the truth makes no sense."

Because the witch loved Battler, by means of her magic, a certain environment came into existence on the day of the conference. That environment became the catalyst for everyone's deaths.

Spoiler for sin:

Ummm..., wait, do you mean to say that if Beatice didnt loved Battler, she wouldnt had wanted to "revive" with all the twilight thing? So there wouldnt had been any deads... That's weird...
I mean, maybe they started to play the game because she loved him, i can understand that, but, is not like if she didnt loved him, she wouldnt had made all that fuss to "revive" anyway...

I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but... How exactly did Battler's sin made peole die, and why is it the root of everything?
His sin is the thing that happened with Shanon right?, 6 years go he promised to take her away from the island, and it seems Beatrice took Shanon's love for Battler? So this means they meet before the anime storyline?

also, in Knox's second: Is the Father Brown magic like Uminekos "magic", or more like Scooby Doo's "magic"?

More like Umineko's, although lower key and it's really only in a few stories. One story, "The Mistake of the Machine", deals with a lie detector and shows (like the Red Truth) how a statement can be absolutely true and still be misleading.

Other suggestions for Golden Age detective stories: Agatha Christie of course, especially the Mousetrap, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Ellery Queen.

BTW, there was an Ellery Queen TV series in the 70s; it was recently released on DVD. Only one episode (The Mad Tea Party) was actually based on a real EQ story, though; another episode (Too Many Suspects) was based on a novel ghostwritten under the Queen byline.